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| Once Upon a Time... Life | |
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| Format | Animated television series |
| Created by | Albert Barillé |
| Developed by | Procidis |
| Starring | Roger Carel Marie-Laure Beneston Gilles Laurent Gilles Tamiz Alain Dorval |
| Country of origin |  France |
| No. of episodes | 26 |
| Production | |
| Running time | 26 minutes |
| Broadcast | |
| Original channel | FR3 Canal+ |
| Original airing | 1987 |
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| IMDb profile | |
Il était une fois... la vie (English: Once Upon a Time...Life) was a French animated television series which tells the story of the human body for children. The program was originally produced in France in 1987 by Procidis and directed by Albert Barillé. The series consists of 26 episodes and originally was aired on the French channel FR3.
The series combined entertaining story lines with an enormous amount of factual information, presented metaphorically. The series "Once Upon a Time... Life" is the third season within six seasons that were produced to the "Once Upon a Time" animation series.
The series "Once Upon a Time... Life" taught about the human body and about the different systems in it with the same charecters from the other Once Upon a Time seasons. "The good Characters" represent the body's defense mechanisms, whereas "the bad Characters" represent the viruses and bacteria that threaten to attack the human body.
The depiction of human body is made with the help of animation of the different agents in it such as the Red blood cell, Bacteria, Viruses, the Nervous system etc. Every episode of the series featured a different organ or system within the human body (like the Brain, the Heart, the Circulatory system, Childbirth, etc).
In the original version of the series, the opening theme song was performed by Sandra Kim, the winner of the 1986 Eurovision contest.
In addition to France, the series was also aired in Israel, Belgium, Canada, Spain, Italy, Japan, Norway, Holland, Sweden and Switzerland.
[edit] Characters
[edit] Characters
The series makes use of recurring human characters originally from the series "Once Upon a Time... Man". every character in the series appeared in a number of versions. One of the versions was as a real person (the old intelligent doctor, the dedicated blonde mother, the boy and the girl, their obese friend, and the pair of bullies) whereas in the other versions the same characters appeared anthropomorphically as cells and cellular functions within the human body:
- The manager of the brain - represented by Maestro, the bearded old man.
- The manager of the Cell nucleus - represented by Maestro (which tends to be a bit sleepy).
- Enzymes - The human body's workmen, shown usually as a man in a bib-and-brace overall and a cap.
- The Red blood cells - represented by a red humanoid family group: Professor Globin (old, he tells a lot about how the body works), Hemo, and his inquisitive and mischievous little girl. They carry oxygen bubbles or carbon dioxide bubbles in a back pouch. They become dark red when carrying carbon dioxide.
- Platelets - represented as red disks with a face on and two legs and four arms.
- The White blood cell - The Body's Police force:
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- Neutrophil granulocytes - represented by foot-patrol "policemen" which are completely white in color, whom wear a yellow star badge. They carry Clubs and would swalow up any body parasites they would find. They can clone themselves. Most of the time they function as traffic cops. Their Commander of the police force is the same but with a European-human-colored head, and is named Jumbo or Jumbo Junior (a version of Jumbo).
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- The Lymphocytes - represented by two Marshals in small flying crafts (a version of Peter and Psi). There are two types of lymphocytes: Lymphocytes B (reacts to infectious agents by launching antibodies), lymphocytes T (in the series they appear to have a smoke cannon). In some scenes the craft and its pilot split into two copies, representing mitosis. Their uniforms are very light blue with shoulder pads. (Those uniforms appear in the outside world in a few futuristic scenes used as spaceman's uniforms/undersuits.)
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- The antibodies - look like small white insect-like characters which after being launched at infectious agents, fly around the bacteria or viruses and paralyze them. The commander of the antibody battalion is an antibody character named Metro.
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- The Macrophages (big yellow ground vehicles shaped like frog heads with big front scoop grab), "the cleanlining services of the body". Most of the time they function as removing the waste of the body and during emergency times they eat the bacteria and viruses.
- The Bacteria (represented as blue bullies) - the big bad bully.
- The Viruses (represented as yellow worms with hands) - the little bad bully.
[edit] Miscellanea
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In the English version, in the introductions of all episodes, is a conspicuous misspelling "Once Apon a Time - Life".
[edit] Regional releases
A DVD box set of all the episodes of the series has been produced and is sold by the French production company Procidis online on their website in the following versions - French, English, Finnish, German and Norwegian.
[edit] Episodes
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1. The Cell Planet |
10. The Neurones |
19. The Bones and the Skeleton |
